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Syllabus Cinema in the Eye of Conflict - 50064
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Last update 07-09-2020
HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: Communication & Journalism

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Prof Raya Morag

Coordinator Email: Raya.morag@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Tuesday, 1600-1700

Teaching Staff:
Prof Raya Morag

Course/Module description:
The course discusses the representation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the '70s - 2000s through analysis of major narrative and documentary works in the two corpora.

Course/Module aims:
Familiarity with Israeli (and Palestinian) cinema on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Discussion of major ethical issues regarding the conflict emanating from the corpora. Familiarity and understanding of the central models in research on Israeli cinema.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
At the end of this course, students will be capable of independently analyzing Israeli films through discussion of the major ethical issues presented in them and in relevant theoretical models.

Attendance requirements(%):
100

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: lectures, discussions, close reading.

Course/Module Content:
1. Introduction: from Khirbet Khizeh (By Ram Loevy (1978) to The Gatekeepers - Dror Moreh (2012)
2. 6 Days War: Avanti Popolo - Rafi Bukai (1986)
3. The Palestinian Wave: Beyond the Walls – Uri Babash (1984)
4. Apocalypse Now? Life According to Agfa - Assi Dayan (1992)
5. First Lebanon War: Lebanon - Shmulik Maoz (2009)
6. Second Intifada Terrorism: No 17 - David Ofek (2003), Paradise Now - Hany Abu Assad (2005)
7. Continued
8. Intersectionality and LGBTQ: Yossi and Jagger – Eitan Fox (2002), Gevald Netalie Braun (2008)
9. Continued
10. The Gatekeepers - Dror Moreh (2012)
11. The Collaborator: Bethlehem - Yuval Adler (2013), Omar - Hany Abu Assad (2013), The Green Prince - Nadav Schirman (2014)
12. Continued
14. Empathic Unsettlement
13. Summary: Freedom Train - Tawfik Abu Wa'al (2018)

Required Reading:
Required Reading:
1. Nora, Pierre (1993) “Between History and Memory: The Problem of the Place” Zmanim 45: 4-19.
2. Shohat, Ella (2010) Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation, rev. ed. London and New York: I.B. Tauris: 215–47.
3. Shohat, Ella (1990) "Master Narrative/Counter Readings: The Politics of Israeli Cinema." In Resisting Images: Essays on Cinema and History. Edited by Robert Sklar and Charles Musser, Philadelphia: Temple University Press: 251-78..
4. Neeman, Jaad and Munk, Yael (2013) "Magic Realism in Avanti Popolo" Mikan 13 : 68-83 (Hebrew)
5. Shams, Anton (1990) "He Mixed the Performances" Avanti Popolo, the Script Jerusalem: Kineret: (Hebrew)
6. Gertz, Nurith, and Hermoni, Gal (2011) “The Muddy Path Between ‘Lebanon’ and ‘Khirbet Khizeh’ - Trauma, Ethics, and Redemption in Israeli Film and Literature.” In Just Images: Ethics and the Cinematic. Edited by Boaz Hagin, Sandra Meiri, Raz Yosef, and Anat Zanger. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 35–58.
7. Morag, Raya (2013) "The Body as the Battlefield" (Ch. 1) Waltzing with Bashir Perpetrator Trauma and Cinema New York: I.B.Tauris: 35-71.
8. Morag, Raya (2013) "QUEERNESS, ETHNICITY, AND TERROR” (Ch. 3) Waltzing with Bashir Perpetrator Trauma and Cinema New York: I.B.Tauris: 127-157.
9. Gertz, Nurith and Khleifi, George (2008) Palestinian Cinema Landscape, Trauma, and Memory Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 1-10, 134-170.
10. Morag, Raya. 2018. “Blood Relations and Nonconsensual Ethics: Israeli Intifada Documentaries.” Post Script 36.2-3: 75-85.

11. Nashef, H. (2016) "Demythologizing the Palestinian in Hany Abu-Assad's Omar and Paradise Now" Transnational Cinemas 7.11: 82-95.

Additional Reading Material:
Viewing Recommendation: A film (Raphael Nadjary's) or a TV series (Noit Geva's) on history of Israeli Cinema.

Moreh, Dror (2014) The Gatekeepers, Tel Aviv, Yediot Achronot,: 9-16, 355-376 (Hebrew)

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 100 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

Additional information:
Course Requirements:
1. Active participation. Required reading of one journal article for each class meeting.
Required viewing of all 14 films on the website.
2. Submission of three mid-term papers: (each- 33 % of final grade)
Length of report: Up to two pages (12 point font, double spaced).
Submission deadlines: Before 10:30 a.m. on 23.11.20; 28.12. 20; 18.1.21.
No submissions will be accepted after the deadline.
3. Submission of seminar paper: Analysis of an Israeli film not discussed in class (please ask me for approval of the film). Bibliographic sources – at least 6 items. Length of the seminar paper – up to 20 pages. 12 point font, double spaced). Deadline for submission: 30.9.21. The submission must be recorded in the office. Detailed instructions will follow.
 
Students needing academic accommodations based on a disability should contact the Center for Diagnosis and Support of Students with Learning Disabilities, or the Office for Students with Disabilities, as early as possible, to discuss and coordinate accommodations, based on relevant documentation.
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